Provided is a method for producing a product by a machine tool, wherein the control information and/or production data of a machine tool, such as a milling machine, injection molding machine, welding robot, laser cutter or 3D printer, is protected or cryptographically encrypted such that unauthorized copying or modifying is prevented, including the steps: producing product by the machine tool taking into consideration control information which controls the production of the product; generating production data by the machine tool during production of the product, wherein the production data describes the production of the product; providing protection information to the machine tool, which indicates which of the production data is to be protected, and defines a protection method for the production data which is protected; and protecting that production data which, according to the protection information, is to be protected, by the protection method defined by the protection information.
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2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each production data category comprises multiple production data which are at least one of generated during the manufacture of a single product and generated during the manufacture of different products with the machine tool.
8. The machine tool for carrying out the method as claimed in claim 1.
11. The machine tool as claimed in claim 10 that is a 3D printer.
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